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Article: ROCKING ON; STEVE MADDEN AND ATLANTIC RECORDS' TALENT SEARCH FOR THE NEXT BIG GIRL-ROCK PHENOMENON IS GIVING YOUNG WOMEN A CHANCE TO PURSUE THEIR POP DREAMS.(Brief Article)
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- Footwear News
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- May 22, 2000
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Those who can rock do. Those who can't design shoes for rockers.
"I, myself, have always wanted to become a pop star," said Steve Madden, chairman and CEO of Steven Madden Ltd., the Long Island City, N.Y.,-based company that recently opened its 58th store in New York. "That never happened, so now I design shoes for them."
To people who know him, Madden's penchant for music is no secret, and his preferences run wide and deep. But it was, in fact, after Madden designed a shoe for Atlantic Records recording artist Tori Amos -- 100 percent of the profits went toward Amos' rape- and incest-awareness charity -- that his idea to sponsor a nationwide ...
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